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How Autoresponders and Email Forwarding make you an Accidental Spammer.

Spam is bad. It ruins the internet experience and is a major reason people hate email as much as most people do. Google has become very good at filtering spam, but it’s not perfect. But did you know, that by enabling certain features in your email, you can become a spammer without ever realizing it? …

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Goodbye FileZilla (Or, how to solve ENETUNREACH – Network unreachable)

Take a hike, eh!

FileZilla is an excellent bit of software that I’ve been using (and recommending) for many years. Today, that changed. The Problem: ENETUNREACH – Network unreachable A few months ago at the web host I work for, we started seeing problems with folks who were using FileZilla. Being on a slow network connection at the time, …

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Malwarebytes Forum Hacked: Yes, It can happen to anyone

Just a few minutes ago, I received the following letter in my email: “geocrasher, I’m writing to let you know that on November 10th a vulnerability in our forum software allowed a hacker to gain access to the server hosting our community. We have no evidence of any personal data being stolen (nor do we …

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